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The recent winner of the Asia segment of The Fortnite Championship Series (FNCS), a competition that brings together top Fortnite players from around the world, has been suspended and had his winnings revoked after accusations of cheating. Japanese player, Sekosama, faced accusations of cheating only hours after being announced the winner, with Epic Games imposing a temporary ban for the pro. Accusations against Sekosama claim that the Fortnite pro had been engaging in a practice known through competitive play as “teaming” in order to gain an advantage in the FNCS matches....

Latency, lag, and input delay all exist in relatively the same world of science. Major games like Call of Duty: Warzone, Apex Legends, and even Counter-Strike: Global Offensive deal with these problems in their own way. One player decided that they wanted to know exactly how big of an impact photon latency has on Warzone and a series of other titles. In a series of charts that this fan shared on Twitter and Reddit, he tested the input lag that each game experiences by tracking click to photon latency at an average of 240 frames per second....

Payday 2 heisters are well-aware that the first-person shooter/theft game likes to make references to other video game and film properties fairly often. Just a month ago, the marketing campaign for the game’s Gage Assault Pack adopted the trademark Battlefield aesthetic as a nod to the fellow Swedish game developer. This week, the latest DLC goes a step further and actually includes a Keanu Reeves character as a playable heister in the game....

A graphical glitch cost this Warzone team the game, and they’re not the only one. Glitches are nothing new in Warzone, but they seem to have gotten worse lately. Worse yet is that some players seem to be exploiting these glitches to reach the final circle. We’re not sure if that’s the case in Reddit user WoIlfie’s video, but it does seem awfully suspicious. In the video below, you can see that WoIlfie and his squadmate are in the final circle....

GameStop, the long-standing video game and Funko Pop retailer, is expecting to report severe financial losses for the first quarter of 2020. This heavy blow, which included the permanent closure of over 300 stores, is heavily attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic forcing its stores to temporarily close. As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, GameStop released these grim projections about Q1 in a preliminary report, which covers from around February to May 2nd. The full results will be posted on June 9th, but it has reported GameStop is losing around $162-$172 million dollars....

The save points from Final Fantasy VII might not have returned in the remake, but they are still referenced on the healing benches that can be found in Final Fantasy VII Remake. In Final Fantasy VII, the player was restricted in the places where they could save the game. The age of games auto-saving was still a ways off, so players had to be careful to make sure they saved often....

Garry’s Mod is a unique project, even among PC games. Released in 2006, Valve published the sandbox game despite it featuring no actual objectives, goals, or progression mechanics. It’s a pure sandbox, in which Garry’s Mod players can create their own games, movies, or more. That focus on user-created content has kept Garry’s Mod popular even to this day, as it frequently ranks in Steam’s top 25 most-played games. Now Garry’s Mod is getting a sequel of sorts named s&box, that’s looking more and more impressive....

Genshin Impact’s Dragonspine region is rich with treasure, quests, and puzzles. The area also added in a chance for players to gather a resource called strange teeth to forge a new four-star weapon called the Dragonspine Spear. This polearm is the perfect compliment to players who use Xiangling or who have recently pulled the five-star geo character Zhongli. The spear has a 60% chance of dropping an icicle on opponents to deal 80% AoE cryo damage....

It’s true that Genshin Impact does have multiplayer, but as many players have learned, it doesn’t work like most normal systems. While Genshin Impact allows players to join up with their friends, it is a single-player game the majority of the time. Depending on how the player tries to use the multiplayer feature, it can be a great help or a complete waste of their time. New players may have downloaded the game solely to have something to do with their friends, only to learn that you can’t access the feature right away....

Genshin Impact players are currently in the midst of their first major official in-game event, Unreconciled Stars. The three phase event finally arrived at its third and final stage on November 23rd, finally allowing players to begin assembling the pieces required to unlock a free copy of popular character Fischl. The Unreconciled Stars event kicked off on November 16th, and hastily entered its second phase, Star of Deceitful Dreams, on November 18th....

Some fans were quick to assume that Genshin Impact was shamelessly “ripping off” Breath of the Wild when it was revealed last year. To say that would be a disservice to all that Genshin Impact does differently, in spite of that inspiration still being immediately apparent throughout the game’s mechanics and world design. A few mechanics and core concepts are certainly borrowed and adapted, and it’s unavoidable not to point that out, but the truth is that Genshin Impact offers its own world and has distinct characteristics....

Although only recently released, Ghost of Tsushima: Legends is already making waves. Developed parallel to Ghost of Tsushima, it makes more than a few changes. While the main game focuses exclusively on a single player narrative, Legends is all about co-op. A two-player story mode and four-player survival mode are central, with a raid mode against powerful bosses coming later. The game also has looting mechanics, with players able to get powerful gear for completing battles....

The 2020 blockbuster, Ghost of Tsushima, combines samurai action with a healthy dose of legitimate history. While most Japanese historical games are set in either the Sengoku Era or the later Edo Era, Ghost of Tsushima defies this unspoken tradition with a story that takes much earlier during the medieval Kamakura Period, giving the game a unique aesthetic. While not everything in Ghost of Tsushima is factually accurate - it is historical fiction after all - Sucker Punch Productions did quite a bit of homework and got some things right....

The artwork/visual design that went into creating Ghost of Tsushima is one of the most impressive aspects of the game, whether playing with the vibrant color pallet or the stark black and white cinematic mode. However, the process was much more involved than simply throwing some assets into a program, and according to Sucker Punch Productions’ Lead Concept Artist Ian Jun Wei Chiew, Ghost of Tsushima’s development was a massive undertaking....

With less than a week to go before the release of Ghostrunner, developer All In Games has confirmed that a next-generation port will be coming sometime in early 2021. With the game releasing on October 27, 2020, for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Switch, it’s nice to see that anyone that upgrades to Sony and Microsoft’s latest boxes will be able to experience this slick cyberpunk runner with some extra visual flair....

It’s finally possible to catch a Gigantamax Meowth in Pokémon Sword & Shield as part of an event that is running in the Wild Area. Pokémon Sword & Shield introduced the concept of Dynamaxing and Gigantamaxing to the series. It’s possible for Pokémon in the Galar region to temporarily transform into a giant with the power of Dynamaxing. It’s also possible for some Pokémon to take on unique Gigantamax forms, allowing them to perform powerful G-Max moves....

Google could be about to enter the item-tracking market, with a new report pointing to a product being worked on ahead of a possible 2023 launch. Item trackers have been around for years with Chipolo and Tile being the two companies most associated with the little gadgets. Apple entered the market with its hugely popular AirTag in 2021 and now it’s said that Google has a similar product of its own in the works....

Back in 2019, THQ Nordic announced that talks surrounding a Gothic Remake were currently underway, with the publisher releasing a playable teaser over on Steam to gauge player interest. The demo was played by thousands of people and generated a lot of buzz, convincing the owners of the IP to greenlight a reimagining of Gothic back in February last year. Today, the next step in the project was unveiled via Twitter, with THQ Nordic announcing that it’s formed a new studio to work on the remake of the cult-classic RPG....

The latest Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct had some disappointing news, as only the male version of Byleth will receive an amiibo, despite the popularity of the female iteration of the character. Byleth was the last DLC character in the first Fighters Pass for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The player can select between a male and female version of Byleth in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and the same choice was given in Super Smash Bros....

Square Enix game producer Yoshinori Kitase offers an update on the development progress of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, saying 2016 will be ‘a year of preparations.’ Ever since Final Fantasy 7 Remake was announced with its E3 2015 reveal trailer, it has been one of the most talked about games in the industry. A remake that fans have been clamoring for since Square Enix teased the possibility in 2006, it would be great if Square Enix somehow released the game by the end of the year....